Everybody’s Reading 2017

30th September – 8th October 2017

The Everybody’s Reading Festival is over for another year! We have gathered up our many pictures, collected in our yellow post-it notes and sent our thanks to the 100 or so people involved in making the festival such a success every year.

You can see our pictures from the 2017 festival below! If you took any pictures you’d like to share with us, you can drop us an email on everybodysreading@sdsa.net.

Author Panel at Hamilton Library

Author Panel enjoying themselves at Hamilton Library

Author Panel at Westcotes Library

Author panel at Westcotes Library

Cupcakes at the festival launch!

ER at The Guildhall

Lucy, Lucy and Lucy Barfield at The Guildhall

The Guildhall

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Shakespeare Storytelling fun

Free storytelling

In the Loop - Getting musical

In the Loop

In the Loop

Leon McCarron at Central Library

My Family event

My Family event

My Family event

My Family

Poems for Life

Poems for Life

Prof Turi King talks Genetics

Prof Turi King

Riddles and Rhymes

Riddles and Rhymes

Riddles and Rhymes

Riddles and Rhymes

Riddles and Rhymes

Stories at my mothers knee

Stories at my mothers knee

Stories at my mothers knee

Stories at my mothers knee

Local Writer's Fair

Local Writer's Fair showcasing local talent

Dr. Seuss storytelling!

More Dr. Suess

Author Panel

Author Panel

Our localy booksellers display (Roving Books!)

More of our lovely Children's authors

Local Writer's Fair

Showcase of Local Writing talent in Leicester

Local Writers Fair workshops

The Exchange Bar played host to many ER events!

60s Counter Culture

Leonie Orton 'I Had it In Me'

Leonie Orton 'I Had it In Me'

Leonie Orton 'I Had it In Me' book signing

Exchange Leicester 'Ode to your Coffee Cup' poems

'Ode to Your Coffee Cup'

'Ode to Your Coffee Cup'

'Ode to Your Coffee Cup'

'Ode to Your Coffee Cup' poem

'Simple Lines' exhibition at Curve Theatre

Story Shadow Puppets

Story Shadow Puppets

Story Shadow Puppets

Evington Scribblers

Ti Sayers in Conversation with Amanda Owen

Protest Camps in International Context

Protest Camps in International Context event + some scrummy Gelato!

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#MiniLibraries! (#MiniLibraryNetwork)

We launched a Mini Library Network as part of the 2017 festival build up. 3 venues around Leicester hosted one of our mini bookshelves – We chose venues that generally don’t have a range of books easily accessible so that as many people as possible can access reading material.

Our first mini library was launched on Saturday 1st July in the Town Hall Square. The bookcase lived in the Methodist Church Chapel Cafe on Bishop Street until the end of the festival. #MiniLibrary number 2 was launched on Saturday 2nd September in the Leicester Cathedral and #MinilLibrary number 3 was in the Highcross Shopping Centre, outside of Toys R Us! Our books were free to take, borrow, swap – We hope to continue this initiative next year, so stay tuned!

See some images below from the 3 Mini Libraries and their storytelling launch events:

MiniLibrary number 3 @ the Highcross Family area

Nicky Rafferty Storytelling @ Highcross

Nicky Rafferty Storytelling

Nicky Rafferty Storytelling @ Highcross

Nicky Rafferty Storytelling @ Highcross

Nicky Rafferty Storytelling @ Highcross

Nicky Rafferty storytelling

Mini Library

Posters!

Nicky Rafferty

Nicky Rafferty

Free books galore!

Storytelling at the launch

Mini Library Number 1 - Walt Disney Treasure theme

The Festival – What’s it all about?

Everybody’s Reading is a festival of all things reading, taking place across Leicester city in schools, libraries and venues, ranging from bars, cafes, pubs, and coffee shops.

Everybody’s Reading is dedicated to encouraging every person in Leicester to hear spoken word artists, poets, authors and community writers in their local community venues and offers funding to help make this happen. With a large variety of genres catered to, it is guaranteed there is something for everyone to enjoy from anywhere in the city

Volunteering!

A HUGE thank you to all the 2017 volunteers, we can’t wait to do it all over again next year when we will be needing another gang of festival recruits. If you are interested in getting work experience, would like to try something new, or would just like to volunteer your time and meet new people for 2018, we will have lots of volunteering opportunities again – So check back next year!